Thunar/DBUS - floppy support. (lshal output)

[nuser]

> nuser wrote:
> > This is the message from HAL ml. --------------
> > 
> >> I'm using Debian Etch, hal 0.5.7-2, dbus 0.62-4. I was told on the
> >> Thunar mailing list (file manager based on gtk2) that it can
> >> automatically mount devices which HAL tells the volume for that
> >> device. Of course it doesn't find a volume there, there is no
> >> floppy disk, the same happens with the cdrom drive, usb port. But,
> >> when I plug a pendrive or insert a cdrom, an object for each volume
> >> inside the device is created, right? When I insert a disk on the
> >> cdrom drive:
> >> 
> >> DeviceAdded, udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_MYFILES
> >> 
> >> How can I solve this? Where sits the "problem" for no being able to
> >> have hal to tell when I insert a disk on the floppy drive? Not even
> >> when I mounted the disk, restarted hald, the volume was not listed.
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > "There is no feasble way to probe for media on standard PC floppy
> > drive, so HAL adds mount methods to storage device itself, not
> > volumes. Your volume manager should present you with a representation
> > of unmounted floppy and let you manually mount and unmount it. This
> > is the same way other OS work too.
> > 
> > - -andrey" --------------
> > 
> > Makes sense, did you ever inserted a disk on a legacy floppy drive
> > and it showed up on thunar, like happens with the cdrom? Unfortunally
> > it didnt here =|.
> 
> I have no floppy disk drive in my Linux box. Can you send me a dump with
> the HAL properties of the associated devices?
> 
> Benedikt

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